Rockne ain't out there, but he is out there ... somewhere. Mr. Right is out there. The next coach of the Cleveland Browns is out there. But the worst thing those who are doing the looking and the interviewing and the hiring can do now is to rush to judgment.

The Browns have tried that love-at-first-sight approach in the past, albeit with a different owner, and the results were disastrous.

Men should never shop for football coaches the way they shop for bathroom fixtures.

Saying, "This will do," to the first ones you see is probably not a good idea.

That, in fact, is probably why the Browns were lucky, not unlucky, that Kelly played them like a Stradivarius in the Arizona desert last weekend.

Transcript from any random 30-second period of the nine-hour vigil by Jimmy Haslam, Joe Banner and their lawyers, sitting in their hotel suite on Saturday, waiting for Kelly's phone call to set up the contract signing meeting:

Antique clock: Tick ... tick ... tick.

Haslam: Has he called yet?

Banner: Nope.

Antique clock: Tick ... tick ... tick.

Sometimes waiting is a good thing. Being turned down -- or is it stood up? -- by Kelly is not the worst thing that could have happened to those in charge of "COACH SEARCH 2013!!!!!!"

Impulse buying is never a good idea, and now with Kelly out of the picture, Browns executives can return to the Super Bowl Trophy-less corridors in Berea to plot their next moves.

They've already interviewed a few other candidates, undoubtedly thinking at the time these were backup, courtesy interviews with candidates who in their judgment paled in the blinding light of the candidacy of Oregon's King Duck.

But the minutes and impressions from those interviews of guys such as former Arizona coach Ken Whisenhunt and Arizona defensive coordinator Ray Horton could be revisited.

They are said to be interested in Colts offensive coordinator Bruce Arians, Marc Trestman, head coach of the Montreal Alouettes in the Canadian Football League, and perhaps Notre Dame coach Brian Kelly.

Pursuing the coach of the Fighting Irish, however, might put the Browns in danger of setting an NFL record for most times turned down in a single off-season by a guy named "Kelly".

Former Bears coach Lovie Smith is available ("Lovie at first sight"?). But Chicago fired Smith after a 10-6 season, which might cause some teams to respectfully ask what's up with that?

Then there's the elephant in the room, Nick Saban, who is churning out national championships at the University of Alabama the way Harvard churns out bank presidents.

Saban says he's happy where he is, perhaps because his team might be better than most of the NFL teams currently looking for coaches. At Alabama, Saban seems to have everything a football coach could ever want -- fame, fortune, a lineup that includes four or five first-round NFL draft picks every year -- but then again, we live in a world in which Alec Baldwin divorced Kim Basinger, so who knows?

What's most important now for those in charge of "COACH SEARCH 2013!!!!!!" is to pull back from Chip Kellypalooza and do a thoughtful, measured, thorough search for the next coach, no matter how long that might take.

There is no clear superstar candidate, so there's no reason for the Browns to feel like they have to throw it into overdrive once again in order to outmaneuver or outhustle a competing team for the next Jim Harbaugh.

In the right situation, any of the available candidates might be a good choice. What's important is finding the right match. Not necessarily the sexiest match or the biggest splash.